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  • “Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge. “Over the past couple of days, a number of politically focused emails have been sent to tens of thousands of employees across the company and we have taken measures to try and reduce those emails to those that have not opted in.”

    Work email is a tool provided by the company to be used for work topics. Some employees are apparently using this tool to send unrelated emails to people who didn’t sign up for it, but still have to deal with it somehow because they are probably required to check their email.

    The company trying to reduce this seems reasonable to me, I’m surprised that so many people seem to take offense at it.








  • nao@sh.itjust.workstolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldGet it right!
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    3 months ago

    It’s not, because the x in Linus’ Unix is not referring to the windowing system:

    Linux Journal: Is it true that you suggested the name “UNIX” for the long ago OS, Multics? What does that word mean?

    Brian Kernighan: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken’s new system, because it was small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can remember who.

    https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035